DAS 
Species. 
Tricincrus. Bands three, moveable ; toes five. Houtt. 
Cataphradus feutis salle cingulis pe Brifl. Tatou, 
Redi. Tatu f. armadillo orientalis Seba. Tatu apara, 
Marcgr. Three- piace armadillo. 
This may be confidered as one of the moft elegant Ver 
r part o 
gular pares ont eaneuy ftudded 
on the furface, and the 
This kind is a native of 
Brazil, and feeds on fruits and poultry. 
Quapricinc : oe four. Gmel, 
Brfl. Chel bailar, Colum 
An uncertain fpecies, by fone conceived to be a variety of 
the former. 
EXCINCTUS. Bands fix ; feet five-toed; Linn. Schreber, 
u et tatu- ak oe ilienfi Marcgr. LEncouvert 
ou tatou 2 hr uff. J armadillo. 
s furnifhed with fix 
Cataphradus, 
rong. 
plantations in South erica; ia eatable, and feeds on fruits 
and roots. A fuppofed variety of this kind, is the Bntth 
Mufeum, having eight inftead of fix bands, may probably 
prove to be a diftingt ae 
SE EPTEMCINCTUS feven; toes on the anterior feet 
Tatus quadrupes peregrina, 
America; and is believed to be 
a variety of the nine- banded armadillo. 
CTOCINCTUS. nds eight; fhields two. Schreber. 
Cataphradus fcutis duobus, cingulis odo, Briff.. a 
Hernand. Yatouette ou tatou a huit bandes, Buf, Light 
banded armadiilo. 
This kind jahabies Brazil, and is efteemed delicious. The 
fhields are fprinkled with prominent white knobs ; a 
whitith ; {isppofed to be a variety of the followiug fpecies 
OvEMCI NCTUS. ands nine; anterior feet four 
gee feet five the Linn. atus, Gé 
u Tatou a neuf bandes, Bu 
The fle i = ha Species 5 is delic The cruft on the 
fhoulders, he oii et eee fix-fided figures. 
It jahabits en Amerie 
UODECIMCINCTUS. “Bands twelve; toes five 
pus unicindus, Lian. Tatu feu armadillo africanus, Scba. 
Kabaffou ou tatou 4 douze bandes, Buff. 
The length of this animal from the nofe to the tail is about 
a foot, and the tail nearly vie pa lon ng. An armadillo, 
{uppofed to be a variety of this, is mentioned by Pennant 
under the name of the greater eee ete armadillo, which 
meafures from the tip of the nofe to the tail two feet ten 
ces and the tail twenty inches. head in both kinds 
19 — blurt, and the ears Jar 
-Cincrus. 
din huit bandes, Buff. 
Defcribed by G 
the weazel-headed armadillo, from a {pecimen in the mufeum 
of the Royal Societ 
It appears to be allied to the twelve-banded ee ai and 
does not feem to be figured by any author except 
D S, Awevs, dente thick, clofe, rough, in Promhet. 
and Coac. is an epithet for a tongue condenfed, contracted, 
Ci irquincon, ou Tatou 
rmadillo. Penn. 
DAT 
and exafperated ts ee and drynefs, as it happens in 
phrenfies. James's i 
DATA, in Mathenaic, certain things, or i resigned 
oa to be given, or known, in rn bees 
find out other things or quantities, whic unkno 
fought for prob ae or queftion, poreally conus of 
two parts; data and qux 
Suclid has an exprefs Gaul of data; — he ufes 
the word for fuch fpaces, an and angle are given in 
eS or to which we can affign others on al. 
= 
From the primary ufe of che word data in mathematics, 
it has anes tranfplanted into other arts; as philofophy, mee 
c 
re d hence alfo fuch things as are kno 
either in natural philofophy, the a ag aby or-the 
operatio n of medicines, we come he knov wledge o 
others unknown, are now Peieale in phyfical writers 
called data. 
DAT-AL-SAMIN, in Geography, a town of Arabia,, 
250 miles of Cathem 
degra 7 Biography a diflinguithed military com= 
ved rds of Artaxerxes 
robes of a fatrap, and decorated with a gold chain and brace- 
lets, and at the fame time, te himfelf into the ruftic at- 
tire of a hut oe with a a club in one hand, and a cor rd in 
had revolted from his allegiance. 
merit of Datames excited the envy of the courtiers, who 
ized of their inten= 
wn 
father? 8 ee ing fent againft him a very nume- 
rous army, but it was unfuccefsful, and the mof it could 
extort was tle nominal fubmiffion of Datames, who in every 
engagement proved himfelf the fuperior. Artaxerxes Soa 
not be reconciled to the rebellious alae and as he 
1e determin a . 
a 
plifhed his end. 
Mithridates, who, in concert w 
be an open enemy of his en a 
the means of performing what lay neareft his heart 
nelius pg 
TE, an addition, or appendage, in writings, adts, 
inflruments, i &c. expreffing the day and month 
of the year, when the 1a, - letter, was paffed or figned; 
together with the place where the fame was done. 
The word is formed from the Latin datum, given, the 
participle of do, I give. The can ainelly fay dabam, I 
ave. 
Cor- 
In writings of importance the date fhould be written 2 
words 
